On Jan 27, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
This has been a very clear pattern if you follow the respective usenet
groups. If it's insulting to say so, so be it. Please continue
shooting the messenger. :)
You, Mr. Experience, should know better than to draw conclusions from
'patterns' of usenet traffic. Proportions of vocal people are not
necessarily very related to proportions of the whole group. That's
just a silly argument. But you didn't really intend an argument,
just an insult, so there's no need to back up your assertions with
real facts, right?
That's both clearly false (by evidence of many counterexamples)
Sure, you can find exceptions for every rule... Except in your world,
where acknowledging that is "weasely." Good luck with that whole
black and white thing.
Certainly enough exceptions to a rule will eventually invalidate it
as a rule. Unless the rule is simply a personal belief, held based
on opinion and vague notions of behavior of a fuzzy, non-
representative group. Good luck with that whole making informed
decisions thing.
--Levi
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